Prague - I'm taking deep breaths to be able to take it in

[Mira]

As I go through my photos from today I have my feet in a trashcan of water - so they can revive. I don’t know how much I walk every day right now - but I would say many miles is not an exaggeration.
Birgit said, if you lose more weight you will be a scare crow. So I eat everything I can stuff down, but I'm not here for that. Good stuff is mostly what’s available here, and along with the excessive walking that seems to be keeping the population trim and healthy looking. Handsome, too. I'm looking at beautiful people in trim bodies wherever I look.
Slovenia, where FLOTUS I think originated - is just next door.

I’ll post a few just to show you what I saw. As I go and hit one I like I mark it…. there is no energy with my feet in water and my body exhausted to make a theme of it,
and here they are

[Sophia4]

1. Incredibly beautiful!

[Squinch]

2. My nightly, "OOOOOOH!!!"

Really beautiful. That door looks like whatever is behind it, it must be magic.

[Dyedinthewoolliberal]

3. Wowee!!

Wow! Wow!

[steventh]

4. Thank you for taking the time to share

These are beautiful.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

5. These are wonderful, my dear Mira, and please take care of your feet!

Thank you for these magical images!

[elleng]

6. THANK YOU!

Very fortunately, when I visited a few years ago and was out on my own, family doing other things, I discovered this was being featured at concert hall, so heard The Moldau/Ma Vlast. Enjoy it, and relax!

[Mira]

8. Love it - love it - love it

Was on the Moldau this morning in a one hour slow boat tour. Hope to post some photos from it. But - as I have so much treasure in photos I may not get there til June. LOL
They played this music as we passed the Smetana museum, and the sounds of the river's waters made it just right.

[elleng]

9. Wonderful!

Want it played at my funeral! (NOT on the horizon, but I live at a riverside and LOVE this piece, seems apropos!)

[pangaia]

20. Just played this a few weeks ago....

Interesting that I never really was crazy about it..... until I played it. :&gt ))

And noticing the other piece.. played the Dvorak several months ago.. small world...

[elleng]

24. VERY interesting!

and very different point of view; I don't play 'anything,' but did pretend to try to learn piano as a kid, so still think of this as 'mine,'

[pangaia]

25. Cool. I 'grew up" with Bernstein, sort of.

Lived right across the river.

OK, now can you post TCHAIK 2? Doing that at the moment. or Russian Easter?

[elleng]

27. So did I grow up with Bernstein,

lived in B'klyn and then moved across the river, saw him conduct @ young people's concerts!

[pangaia]

28. Good work. 🤣

[pangaia]

21. Dynamite performance...

[pamdb]

7. Prague

ON my bucket list. Along with Provence.

[jalan48]

10. I loved Prague. Were you able to see where Kafka lived?

[Adsos Letter]

11. These are wonderful, Mira.

I love all of them.

Good luck with the feet! Hard to imagine a better place to have to fill up on food.

[sharedvalues]

12. Very nice. Thanks for posting.

[Solly Mack]

13. Prague is one of my favorite places.

Love it!

[fierywoman]

14. Exquisite! So many thanks for sharing.

[Lonestarblue]

15. Prague is wonderful!

Your photos are beautiful. If you get a chance, go to the state opera house where Mozart premiered Don Giovanni. It is truly a jewel and well worth a concert or a tour.

[flying_wahini]

16. I loved Prague. Great city.

[argyl]

17. That's gorgeous. I'm planning a European trip next year.

Prague was already on my list. I've talked to Europeans who say it's the most beautiful city in Europe. It didn't suffer the damage so many cities did in WWII.

Then Vienna, Munich, Amsterdam, and winding up in Galway, Ireland.

[BobTheSubgenius]

18. The decades and centuries of places like Prague leave me gobsmacked.

Thank you for your photos!

[lucca18]

19. We visited beautiful Prague in October.

It was so enchanting.
We were there for ten days and had a one bedroom apartment in the Lesser Quarter, near Prague Castle.
I loved every minute of our visit!
Your photos are beautiful!

[Hamlette]

22. Prague was Hitler's favorite city so he preserved it throughout the war.

He was going to make "a museum to a vanquished race" there. He sent jewish artifacts from places he conquered to Prague. They returned what they could after the war. He even kept the ghetto intact in Prague while destroying ghettos in other European cities. It is beautiful. The first time we went was in 1975 (imagine it with no tourists but not as colorful).

[pangaia]

23. What a magical place.

[Ohiogal]

26. I wish I was there with you!

Thank you for sharing your trip with us!

[OldEurope]

29. No, it is Slovakia that is nearby.

Melania came from Slovenia. Slovenia was part of the former Yugoslavia.
Slovakia and the Czech Republic were once together in Czechoslovakia, then separated in 1993.

Very confusing!




Edited to add: To make the confusion complete, Trump's former wife Ivana was from Czechoslovakia!

[trusty elf]

30. Happy to see you enjoying yourself!

Lovely pics!

[FakeNoose]

31. I was in Prague 12 years ago, it's truly historic and gorgeous

The great thing about Prague is that's it's the "sister city" of Vienna, however the lovely city of Prague was never bombed like Vienna was. Whenever movies need to show a scene of Old Vienna, they film in Prague to capture the atmosphere.

I love your photos, they are quite nice. Did you see much graffiti when you were there? I was so disappointed in the graffiti on the historic walls and buildings, and it was quite a problem. It spoiled the touristy part of the city, but I don't see any graffiti in your photos.

Nice!

[Mira]

32. To answer your questions a bit

YES - I saw graffiti, and tried to not have it in my photos. BUT - I also saw people who were painting over them in short shrift, and then some of them were quickly gone. I tried to not stress about it, knowing they are trying to stay on top of it.
Prague was never bombed like Vienna because the Führer had picked it as his future Capital of the 1000 year Reich.
He purposely kept the bombs away. I heard today that the movie "Amadeus" was filmed here - it's a favorite of mine.
I also was quite taken with how much Prague and Vienna are "sisters". For me, Vienna is "home" since that's where my grandparents lived, and now my cousins and an aunt, and also beause I lived there for one year as a 10 year old.
In Prague I don't speak the language.
Bummer.

[JayhawkSD]

33. I love really, really old cities.

I used to live in Atlanta, which I loved, by the way. Great city.

Anyway, my brother lived up in New Jersey and owned a home, part of which was built in the early 1700's. The rest was built early 1800's, and he was restoring all of it, carefully preserving the historical aspect. He was especially careful to keep the 1700's part in its original configuration, and the whole place was awesome.

He came to visit me one time and we were driving around as I showed him the city. He finally commented that he couldn't understand how, in a city which was that old, there were not any really old buildings. I just started laughing and he was, like, "What?"

"Ever hear of a general named Sherman?" I asked him. He had the good grace to be embarrassed.

[alfredo]

34. Wonderful

[Richard D]

35. I love Prague!

Only problem there is that in every direction there's great photos to be taken. So many photos, so little time.